confirmed cases have now outnumbered that of the 2003 SARS outbreak and all

within the matter of a few weeks for more on this our Jonghyun is online Jang

Yoon it looks like this outbreak is here to stay at least for some more time to

come right so the new type of corona virus that first sprouted up in the

Chinese city of Han late last month continues to claim more victims as a

Thursday the death toll in China tops 170 and the total number of confirmed

cases came to nearly 8000 an infection rate much faster than the outbreak of

SARS which had around 5,300 confirmed cases in 2003 as the virus continues to

spread quickly the World Health Organization has advised China to test

everyone leaving the country w-h-o suggests china check for symptoms

of high fever or cough among those departing with the cases related human

to human transmission increasing the w-h-o will decide on whether to announce

a global emergency within the next 24 hours global emergencies are declared

when a disease or virus spreads across borders and is considered to be putting

other countries Public Health in danger once in place relevant regions undergo

thorough investigations along with restrictions on travel and trade now a

number of countries have sent charted planes to retrieve their nationals from

Wuhan what do we know about that so far and what are they doing to ensure these

people don't spread the virus when they get back to their home countries well

some 200 US citizens who are in ohan arrived at an Air Reserve Base some 90

kilometers away from Los Angeles on Wednesday morning local time

all of them underwent medical tests twice in China and none had symptoms of

pneumonia but as the incubation period of the corona virus last two weeks the

passengers will be examined once again in California and will be put into

emergency shelters at the air base for three days to two weeks

meanwhile Japan also brought out some 200 Nationals of which 13 had fevers and

coughs according to Kyodo news to people men in their 40s and 50s were diagnosed

with pneumonia but their symptoms were relatively trivial people with symptoms

were hospitalized while the rest are staying at a hotel in Chiba Prefecture

the authorities tested every passenger for the novel coronavirus

except for two people who refused the test Japan will establish a health

follow-up center and will watch for symptoms in the evacuees

via phone and email that's all I have for now but I'll be back with more

updates in our later newscast